Stress Testing Hard Drives

[Jeffrey McCright]

Billy,

You may find something of interest here.

   http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

This project is a live CD with a collection of free and open-source 
diagnostic utilities used for a number of PC diagnostic, data recovery, file 
system repair, disk wiping, etc. The website provides links back to those 
sources and you may find a specific stress test utility for the specific 
manufacturer of the hard drives you wish to stress test. I hope this helps.

Best Wishes,


Jeffrey A. McCright, A+
816-210-3107
jmccright at hotmail.com





>From: "Billy Crook" <billycrook at gmail.com>
>To: KCLUG <kclug at kclug.org>
>Subject: Stress Testing Hard Drives
>Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:08:56 -0500
>
>Can anyone recommend a program or method of stress testing hard drives?  I
>check memory/cpu with memtest86, but I would like some way to stress test a
>hard drive.  Currently I dd urandom over it for a few days or DBAN it, but
>I'm looking for something more thought out.  Preferably, a program that can
>run on a live system so I'd just attach the drive to be tested, and point
>the test at /dev/sdd or whatever dev it was on.  Preserving data on the
>drive is (obviously) not a concern.


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